I TOTALLY feel Scott Pelley's anger and frustration here

[Montauk6]

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[Tetrachloride]

1. The journalists should play to win

sternly worded tv clips ? not too scary

[Joinfortmill]

2. He was powerful and real. Interviewer, meh.

[harumph]

3. Just listening to the first 16 min, my impression is that Pelley

hasn't caught up to the fact that legacy news organizations have become a tool of the billionaire class to
promote propaganda. The billionaires don't care about "news craft." They don't care about the "family" of 60 minutes. Our extreme wealth class have so much money that these news organizations (which are just part of a larger group of acquisitions) can actually be run at a loss as long as they are useful sock puppets. Hence the purpose of legacy news is now to drive public opinion to positions that are favorable to billionaires. Let's face it, most legacy news for some time has lapsed into bothsiderism. That wasn't good enough because what the billionaires are doing, e.g., data centers, etc., is objectively unpopular for citizens of whatever political persuasion. So, they've turned the propaganda machine up to 11 to compensate. They'll go after independent (non biased) web based news next - even if it takes controlling the internet at a granular level. By controlling, I mean internet providers for example, throttling access to certain undesirable sites. The take away is that we have a class which has successfully hedged their wealth to the extent it would take a natural disaster or economic collapse so significant it would mean the death of perhaps even billions, to unset them. I'm not willing to sit around and wait for that to happen.

[ihaveaquestion]

4. Scott Pelley was fired for "insubordination" because they are Authoritarians at heart.

He didn't see it coming because he is lucky enough to have experienced good management from honorable, intelligent people in his career.

The current management structure of CBS news is "Imperial." It can be a real shock when good, fair minded people hit up against this sort of thing for the first time. I've had this experience a few times in my life and I've always had this shock. It never really occurs to me beforehand that people can be this awful... Scott Pelley is a nice person and would never treat someone else this way, so it just doesn't occur to him that he could be treated as a "subject."

Sorry Mr. Pelley... they aren't going to change.

[scipan]

5. that was not a friendly interviewer

Not unfair IMO, just hard hitting and adversarial.

He handled it brilliantly.

[SouthBayDem]

6. Compelling way to spend my Sunday, instead of whatever 60 Minutes has become.

NYTimes also has a full transcript (gift link).

Considering his background in media, in any other circumstance I'd be willing to give Nick Bilton a chance, but Pelley's interview really makes Bilton look like a mindless yes-man for Weiss/Ellison.